PSY 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Animacy
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I. e. beliefs, desires, pretends, etc: early understanding, imitation of simple gestures in newborns, imitation of object based actions, joint attention, understanding differing desires, pretence, foundational social understanding, contingencies (our actions are dependent and follow the action of others) between infant"s actions and his or her social partners, imitation of simple facial gestures from birth. Joint attention behaviors beginning between 9 12mos following the gaze of another human, pointing: i. e. at 7mos, the turning of the head by adults doesn"t make baby turn his attention, but at 10mos the baby will gain the ability to follow someone else"s gaze, understanding of mental state concepts often requires the key insight that mental states (which are unobservable) can be different from the observable behavior of people, one test case is infants ability to distinguish two different reasons for an actor not giving them a toy.
